Walking Guide to the Via de la Plata and the Camino Sanabres Second Edition eBook Gerald Kelly
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The Vía de la Plata was originally a Roman Road linking Asturias in the north of Spain with the port of Cadiz in the south. Its name, which means The Silver Route, dates from Roman times when it was used to transport silver from the mines of Asturias to the Mediterranean port of Cadiz and onward by ship to Rome. Beginning in the 9th century, as Santiago de Compostela was becoming known as a Christian pilgrimage site, it also began to be used by pilgrims travelling to and from the tomb of St James the Apostle.
In the 1980s the revival of the Camino Francés as a walking route renewed interested in the Vía de la Plata. Numbers of pilgrims increased slowly over the years peaking at 14,197 in Holy Year 2010, and since then constant at about 9,000 a year. In contrast to the Camino Francés, the busiest times on the Vía de la Plata are spring and autumn. The extreme summer heat in southern Spain makes June, July and August the preserve of a small number of hardy souls.
Today the Vía de la Plata has become a popular alternative to the Camino Francés for people looking for solitude and a more authentic Camino experience (with its accompanying difficulties). This guide covers the Vía de la Plata from Seville to Astorga, and the Camino Sanabrés, which branches from the Vía de la Plata and arrives in Santiago through southern Galicia. People often use the term Vía de la Plata to refer to the combination of these two routes.
This second edition, entirely rewritten and extended in spring 2016 and revised in autumn 2017, includes the following
- Updated and improved maps - Notes on the towns and villages you'll pass through
- Route descriptions and distances
- Altitude profiles
- Pilgrim accommodation
- Services shops, restaurants, banks, etc.
- Notes on some of the important historical sites you can visit
It also covers the Caminos de Finisterre and Muxía, west of Santiago.
I started writing this guide after I can back from walking the Vía de la Plata from Seville to Santiago via Astorga in the winter of 2009, and finished the first edition after returning to walk the Camino Sanabrés in 2012. Preparing for my walk I had been unable to find any reliable information in English about the routes and accommodation along them. This didn't deter me and I managed fine with a print out of accommodation from a Spanish website and some Google maps of the towns with the route sketched on them. However, if I hadn't known Spanish I would have been lost and I probably wouldn't have even attempted this walk.
Based on my experience I decided to try to make information more widely available in English. I started by making the guide available as a free download from my website. Thanks to the positive feedback and encouragement I received from other pilgrims who used it, I decided to try publishing it on (with the addition of maps). This has enabled me to bring the information to a far wider audience - not free, but for a fair price. From the beginning I appealed to pilgrims to send me updates and corrections to help me keep the information up-to-date. Many people responded, and this, together with online resources, allowed me to keep track of new hostels and route changes.
In spring 2016 I had the opportunity to walk the Vía again. Allowing me to produce an extensively rewritten second edition of the guide with improved maps and the addition of altitude profiles.
I set out to create a source of the essential information someone will need to walk the Vía de la Plata, and this book is still that, the essential information distances, pilgrim hostels, places to buy food, places to eat, and notes about those few places where the yellow arrows may not be sufficient for you to find your way.
Walking Guide to the Via de la Plata and the Camino Sanabres Second Edition eBook Gerald Kelly
Can't wait to get started. The book is just directions and albergue locations, but that's exactly what I wanted. Some books include historical and tourist information, but I only want the most compact and easy to follow guide I can find. This one looks good. (Of course I haven't walked the trail yet, so its accuracy remains to be seen. I'll let you know after I reach Muxia.)Product details
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Walking Guide to the Via de la Plata and the Camino Sanabres Second Edition eBook Gerald Kelly Reviews
The directions to Alberges need to be clearer.
Comprehensive, up-to-date guide for VDLP and Sanabrese route in English.
Provided me with all the information I need to undertake this Camino.
Loved it. But now I'm going a different route.
We only used the part covering the Camino Sanabres beginning in Ourense, so I can't speak to the accuracy and helpfulness of the rest of the book. We did find many of the listings needed updating (a chronic problem with any guidebook), and that the directions often could have been clearer. In describing Cea, "The geography of this town is too confusing to describe..." A map would have been helpful -- fortunately the hospitalero led us to the center of town. The albergue was a long way from where we first entered the town, not really "at the start of the village." No mention that this village is famous throughout the region for its bread. We traveled after a heavy rain, but the way was not wet and muddy -- a "fact" that almost made us take a different route, but thankfully we did not. The book describes the kitchen at the A Laxe hostel as having basic utensils -- it had none -- not a single dish or pot -- so the kitchen was essentially unusable. Therefore we didn't know whether we could trust that there would be a kitchen at Outeiro.
Light weight and detailed with all needed information about the route. I like that it was minus a lot of unnecessary fluff. Will be my guide to my spring 2017 Camino. Thanks!
I really wanted to love this book, especially because it came so highly recommended. The book has some “ok” information, but the layout of that information and the fact the whole thing is in black and white make it difficult to read and understand. Having walked the Camino Frances using John Brierley’s book I find this guide to be awful in comparison. Another problem is that the way the mileages are listed is confusing. I would send this book back, but it’ll cost me 3/4 of the price of the book itself. I’ll be using this book with much more detailed information I found online. In fact, I may ditch this book entirely instead.
Can't wait to get started. The book is just directions and albergue locations, but that's exactly what I wanted. Some books include historical and tourist information, but I only want the most compact and easy to follow guide I can find. This one looks good. (Of course I haven't walked the trail yet, so its accuracy remains to be seen. I'll let you know after I reach Muxia.)
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